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Greg Cote

Greg Cote: No. 1-ranked Dolphins, fans bask in national attention, ditch 20 years’ irrelevance

Dolphins Tua Tagovailoa Miami Mike McDaniel Miami Dolphins NFL Philadelphia Eagles Dan Marino

MIAMI — In the parity-drenched, prediction-defying NFL, a record 18 games have been decided by three points or fewer in the first three weeks of the season. It seems fitting the last two teams perfect at 3-0 are not the usual suspects but unlikely front-runners in the Miami Dolphins and Philadelphia Eagles.

The Fins get to be Cinderella, the “it” team. Philly won a Super Bowl recently, in 2017. Miami hasn’t even won a playoff game since Jan. 6, 2001. Tua Tagovailoa was then a 2-year-old toddling around Ewa Beach, Hawaii.

The national attention on Miami has been sudden and intense. South Florida’s flagship sports franchise hasn’t been a media darling like this probably since Dan Marino was breaking passing records in the mid-1980s.

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